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Lining for Boots and Shoes.

No. 232,694, Patented Sept. 28, 1 880.

N. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D Q

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

AARON M. DANIELS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SAM ALLEN, OF SAME PLACE.

LIINING,FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,694, dated September .28, 1880. Application filed Marclll, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON M. DANIELS, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Linings for Shoes and I do hereby declare that the following is' a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a person skilled in the art can make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. V p

Like letters in the figures indicate the same parts.

My improvement relates to the manufacture.

of shoes; and it has for its object the provid-.

ingot a better andmore perfectly-fitting lin ing than has heretofore been in use, which will firmly adhere to the leather as long as the shoe lasts, and render the shoe perfectly water-proof.

My improved waterproof lining is intended to be made'up with the shoe in the usual manner, except that it is not to be pasted upon the leather, as is now ordinarilydone.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the upper-leather of a shoebefore ,itis attached to the sole. Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1 upon the line a: 3 looking to the rear, and showing the two thicknesses of leather and lining upon the sides.

A represents the ordinary upper-leather. B

the lining and then allowed to become dry aild hard. The adhesive material preferably used is flour paste; mixed in equal proportions with the powdered rosin, but the exact proportions are not material. The principal ingredient is the rosin, which forms the base of the waterproof attaching cement, the paste or other adhesive substance being only the vehicle for distributing and retaining the rosin upon the lining until it is placed in the shoe.

With my improved lining the shoe is made upwith the lining loose and not pasted to the leather.

to the leather when broughtdn contact with the foot, substantially as described.

2. A boot or shoe provided with a lining of thin felt made water-proof by a mixture of rosin and an adhesive medium applied upon 1ts inner surface, all substantially as set forth,

for the purpose stated.

AARON M. DANIELS.

Witnesses:

THEO. G. ELLIS, WILMoT HORTON.

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